The family of Florida businessman Daniel Joseph Dorsch and his wife, Cyndie Dimalanta Dorsch, offered a statement today on the deaths of the two in Sunday’s plane crash on the Augusta County-Rockbridge County line.

The Mount Sidney rest areas along Interstate 81 are among the 18 that will close July 21, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Steve McNair earned the respect of his fellow NFL players for shaking off defenders and injuries. That same blue-collar playing style won the love of fans amazed at how the quarterback kept showing up for work — and winning.

As surprised fans and critics of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin traded guesses behind her decision to resign more than a year before her term ends, the former vice presidential candidate offered few hints at her political future, except to say she’d gone fishing.

Michael Jackson’s family wants a judge to delay a hearing Monday to designate two men listed in the pop superstar’s will as temporary administrators of his estate so that they can look deeper into his affairs, a person close to the family said.

Single-engine aircraft crashes in Steeles Tavern, killing businessman, wife.

A year ago Sunday, when gasoline prices in Virginia hit $4 per gallon, Kimberly Ann Calos wasn’t worried.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.

Vice President Joe Biden signaled that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, even as the top U.S. military officer said any attack on Iran would be destabilizing.

A small, single-engine plane crashed in a field on the Augusta/Rockbridge county line early Sunday, killing all aboard, state police said.

A woman lost control of her minivan Saturday afternoon, causing a literal pileup at the corner of Rosser Avenue and Thirteenth Street. Drivers of four cars were shaken up in the wreck. None was hospitalized.

North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles Saturday into waters off its east coast in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew global expressions of condemnation and concern.

For families looking for an atypical Independence Day festivity, many turned to tradition Saturday at the Frontier Culture Museum’s historical celebration.

Giant flag flies

Authorities don’t suspect foul play involved

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down — throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

A wealth of fireflies is turning every night in the Richmond area into the Fourth of July.

Large garrison flag to fly today outside municipal building downtown

A riled rattler didn’t bite five times, nor even once.

VERONA — Augusta County zoning officials Thursday backed a special-use permit for a Motocross track and sports park development in Greenville.

The safest fireworks are those launched by trained professionals, public safety officials say, but sales haven’t waned for at-home displays as another Fourth of July holiday approaches.

Searchers comb area surrounding Wintergreen Resort for country club president

Coping with the ever-tightening state and local budgets will be the toughest challenge for the Waynesboro Schools during the next year, the new school board chairman said Thursday.

Rare bust nabbed non-addictive and relatively non-toxic drug

A man airlifted from the Blue Ridge Parkway this week falsely reported being bitten by a snake, authorities determined today.

Iran’s former president has joined ranks with the country’s embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and accused the Iranian government of failing its people in the recent election and condemning the subsequent crackdown on protesters.

Determined to advance President Barack Obama’s health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize the country.

Man’s psychedelic horde makes city history

Despite their fearsome reputation, timber rattlesnakes rarely sink their fangs into people, and especially not more than twice, as appears to have been the case with a man bitten while hiking just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, experts said Wednesday.